Digital
Hub Section:This
new section of the site provides info on the Bournemouth conurbation as an up-and-coming digital
media 'hub' (given the nickname 'Silicon Beach Bomo'). Intro and table of contents page here.

Film-TV
Section:Covering
the region within an hour's drive of the main Bournemouth conurbation, this section has a chronological
listing, a production history, and full-page features covering a film, film-maker, or location
area of interest.

This section of the website covers writers and works with a strong connection to the south-central
region.Latest feature page online was On
The Trail Of The Bloomsbury Group In Wessex. See also the 'Setting The Scene in
Wessex' series below.

'Setting
The Scene In Wessex' GuidesThis feature-page series covers both literary
and film-tv local-interest works dealing with a particular period or genre - the Prehistoric
Era, the 17th Century, the 'Country House' saga, the WWII Era etc. The latest guide up is the
longest, a 2-part guide to crime novels, films, and tv series, from Moonfleet to Broadchurch,here.'Cultural Capital' SectionThis
section of the site covers the conurbation's cultural icons and contributors, with an intro page
for each era (Georgian etc) and each major contributor having their own illustrated webpage.

'MediaScene'
Topical Blog PostsThese are commentaries,
ranging
from short notices to mini-essays, on topical issues of local interest.

'Bournemouth In The Media’
columns 2000-2001Several years before this website went online in 2005 and I began the 'MediaScene' blog
series above, I wrote a monthly column called 'Bournemouth In The Media’ for the Boscombe Network
Community Enterprises trust, a charity of which I was a director. (I quit as director in 2001
after a policy disagreement, so the columns ended after around a year.) The BNCE and its website
being both now defunct, I decided, ten years on, to republish the columns, which were the forerunners
of the blog posts above. [For more on the background, see here.]

About Us South Central
MediaScene serves to promote the south-central region's media profile. It's an independent
site [no funding], and not a business. Email
us.

Our
Locations SectionThis latest themed section of our website illustrates locations of interest
in the region, by type - beaches, prehistoric sites etc. Even if you are not looking for film
or tv locations, you may find the various web-pages being added below of interest.

Latest Locations
Feature Page: Fortifications The region
has castles and forts from all eras, which have been appearing onscreen since the 1930s.Locations
Feature Page #4: Marine FacilitiesLocal facilities for marine vessels range from
docks for large ships to quays, piers and jetties for smaller vessels, private boatyards, marinas,
ferry terminals, and even sunken wrecks for divers.
Film and tv companies have been using these location assets for decades.

Locations
Feature Page #3 - BeachesTripAdvisor’s
annual Traveller’s Choice awards for the top ten UK beaches this year included 3 local beaches.
This would be no surprise to local residents, for there is a variety of beach locations all
along the Jurassic Coast between Bournemouth and Lyme Regis some 70 miles west. Filmmakers
have also been coming down here since at least the early silent era to shoot on beach locations,
not only for locally-set stories but those set in other countries, from California to Scandinavia
to North Africa.

Below:Clavel Tower,
Kimmeridge Bay. The bay, with its distinctive headland landmark tower (built 1820) in the background,
featured recently in an episode of the SF anthology tv drama series Philip K. Dick’s
Electric Dreams, with a futuristic village set built right on the clifftop. (Mouse
over photo to see 2nd image.) Clavel Tower itself
was seen close up in the 1985 ITV adaptation of PD James's 'Commander Dalgleish' mystery The
Black Tower, where the exterior was coated with water-soluble black paint for the
shoot. The author later helped organise a fundraising campaign to move the tower back from
the eroding cliff-edge. It also appeared in the ZDF [German state tv] Rosamunde Pilcher romance-novel
adaptations Kinder des Glücks, Die Rose von Kerrymore and
Die Liebe ihres Lebens.
(Mouse over photo to see 2nd image.) The relocated tower has had its interior, gutted by fire
in 1931, restored by the Landmark Trust as holiday accommodation.